Habitat Loss Challenges the Conservation of Endemic Plants in Mining-Targeted Brazilian Mountains

• Published in: Environmental conservation Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 140 - 146
• Main Authors: Salles, Debora M, Carmo, Flávio F do, Jacobi, Claudia M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Availability; Biodiversity; Brazil; Concentrates (ores); Conservation; Conservation areas; Economic development; Endangered species; Endemic plants; Flowers & plants; Habitat availability; habitat destruction; Habitat loss; Habitats; indigenous species; Intelligence; Iron; Iron compounds; Iron ores; Mining; Mountains; Nature conservation; NON-THEMATIC PAPERS; Open pit mining; Outcrops; plants (botany); Vegetation; Brazil; Cerrado Biome; functional connectivity; ironstone outcrops; conservation planning; Iron Quadrangle; opencast mining; canga; habitat availability

Ironstone outcrop habitats harbour rare and endemic rupicolous plants. In southeast Brazil, they concentrate on mountaintops in the Iron Quadrangle (IQ), an intensively exploited iron ore reserve. To evaluate the current habitat availability of 32 plants endemic to canga (ironstone outcrops) and to...